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It is the consistent position of the Chinese Government to oppose and condemn international terrorism of all descriptions, and oppose fulfilling political or other agendas through international terrorist means and violent terrorist activities by...

Quote by Li Peng about country

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Quote by Kathy Acker about nation, people

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about magic, pleasure, woman, sex

I was performing since I was a kid. I think it comes down to something physical. It's the use of your entire instrument as opposed to just playing an instrument.

Quote by Armand Assante about use

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Quote by George W. Bush about ambition, failure, hope

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Quote by William Falconer about heads

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Quote by Andy Garcia about children, sensibility

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about people, man, things

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

Quote by Mick Jagger about night, being, things

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Quote by Don Johnson

In general, a persons' innocence is often diametrically opposed to how much they insist that they are.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, people

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a...

Quote by Camille Paglia about liberty, democracy, thinking, state, use

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

Quote by Bill Paxton about death

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Quote by William Penn about reason, truth, rightness, nothing

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Quote by William Penn about opinion, help

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Quote by William Penn about truth

Through Death, absolutely anything receives a connotation opposed to Life, but nevertheless, Life would never be Alive without Its Death which bestows on it its full shine, as Death wouldn’t be what it is.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, life

Whose life, in fact, Death’s or Life’s? I say this because, due to the mirror, we can talk about the Life of Life or the Life of Death, but also about the Death of Life or the Death of Death. No matter what we would talk about, one thing is...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about death, life, things